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Vital as is the disbarment of this law, only public education will assure the maintenance of America's fundamental rights. And any majority, however much annoyed by the proddings of dissent, must face the unanswerable logic of Mill's plea for free speech: majorities may be wrong; and when they are right, they can best prove it by letting the minority talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANTED: A CHAMPION | 3/21/1925 | See Source »

With all due respect to the Anti-Blasphemous Society, one might suggest that they are on the wrong track. Italians abroad who do not know the language of the country in which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CURSE OF ITALY | 3/20/1925 | See Source »

...They were wrong, however. The Horn & Hardart Co. seldom advertise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prank | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...this country, competing, overlapping, each insisting on some minutiae, tithing mite, anise or cumin and neglecting the weightier matters of the law. And so far has this historic policy gone that one denomination of Mennonites is distinguished from all others by the fact that it thinks wearing buttons wrong and wears hooks and eyes instead. "Against this policy of Protestantism we have taken our stand. We have built an inclusive church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Holy Land | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

Take our faculty for instance: Langfeld is gone, and Baker, and I have no doubt that others will follow. Something is wrong there, possibly the business school. Then, too, the yard is being "cloistered" to death, is being made to resemble a factory rather than a decent campus. To misquote Patrick Henry: "Give us our grass and our eim trees or give us death preferably the vegetable matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/27/1925 | See Source »

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